The book can be considered as a result frommy clinical, neuroscientific, and philosophical
work at Dept. of Neurology at Harvard University in Boston (USA), Dept.
of Psychiatry at University of Magdeburg (Germany) and Dept. of Philosophy at
University of Duesseldorf (Germany). It is a sort of “state of the art” of my own
thinking that guides either implicitly or explicitly my clinical attitude, empirical
studies and theoretical considerations.Writing such a book consumesmuch energy
and valuable time in which you could have done other things thatmakemore sense
than thinking, reading and writing. Therefore, I want to thank everybody who gave
me psychological support without which I could have not written this book.